Ibn Abdul Wahhab on the Tarawih Prayer

The founder of the Wahhabi movement, Muhammed Ibn Abdul Wahhab (d. 1206H) in his book

كتاب مختصر الإنصاف والشرح الكبير, states:

https://al-maktaba.org/book/1685/155

In the above paragraph, he attests that the tarawih prayer is 20 rakahs (and 36 according to Imam Malik).

There is no mention of 8 rakahs of tarawih prayer being a valid position for obvious reason that such a position was never heard off. Its emergence was only recent and one of several innovated practices instituted by the pseudo salafis.

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